The European Union's Engagement with Transnational Policy Networks

Stephen Kingah, Vivien Ann Schmidt, Wang Yong

• Publisher: Taylor & Francis
• Year: 2018
• eBook ISBN: 9781317233725
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Politics & International Relations
• Subtopic: European Politics
• Index: Politics & International Relations

This book is the first of its kind to paint a comprehensive picture of the manner in which the European Union (the EU) interacts with transnational policy networks (TPNs). The TPNs covered are those in a variety of fields including: conflict-prone natural resources, health, energy security, migration, human trafficking, combating of terrorism financing and climate change. The chapters are developed around six main lines of inquiry. The lines of inquiry articulated are: modalities through which the EU influences TPNs around the world, TPNs' influence of policy and decision-making within the EU, conditions under which engagement between the TPNs and the EU may be regarded as successful, the identity and location of the TPNs and finally the added value or futility of a strategy developed in Brussels to weaken or fortify interactions with the networks studied. The importance of TPNs should be approached from the angle of the heightened attention now placed on informal modes of decision making. Increasingly there is a sense that many international decisions are adopted and internalized through networks that can be efficient yet wanting in transparency. The book unveils complex debates on the inter-phase between inter-governmental / supranational entities like the EU, on the one hand, and networks, on the other. The physiognomy of this inter-phase matters not only for the EU but also for other such inter-governmental/ supranational bodies as well as networks. This book was previously published as a special issue of Contemporary Politics.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Contents
• Citation Information
• 1. Setting the scene: the European Union’s engagement with transnational policy networks
• 2. Assessing the European Union’s engagement with transnational policy networks on conflict-prone natural resources
• 3. The European Union and transnational health policy networks: a case study of interaction with the Global Fund
• 4. The European Union and its energy security challenges: engagement through and with networks
• 5. Transnational policy networks and the European Union’s energy policy
• 6. Energy security in China–European Union relations: framing further efforts of collaboration
• 7. Transnational policy networks in the migration field: a challenge for the European Union
• 8. The European Union’s networked approach to human trafficking
• 9. Regulating money laundering for terrorism financing: EU–US transnational policy networks and the financial action task force
• 10. The EU in transnational climate networks: the case of the Partnership for Market Readiness (PMR)
• 11. The European Union’s role in networks on removal of fossil fuel subsidies and disclosure of climate change information
• Index